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 == Release Engineering ==
+* [http://oduinn.com/2008/12/15/nokias-nokias-everywhere/ Aki's work on mobile and talos]
+* Enabling a11y tests last week were backed out; we *think* we've got it; will try again this week.
+* Backup your machine! (Thanks to Justin and Sean for their help!)
 == QA ==
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 ** Working on a mochitest file for {{bug|469367}} to test the accessibility attributes generated by the ARIA markup newly introduced in the search textbox's XBL widget.
 * Metrics
-** ~5% percent of the files in the source tree have 10 or more bug fixes.  max number of bug fixes in a file is 69 since teh m-c tree opened.  SOme of these have zero or low coverage
+** ~5% percent of the files in the source tree have 10 or more bug fixes.  max number of bug fixes in a file is 69 since the m-c tree opened.  Some of these have zero or low coverage
 ** Worked with rsayre to do an updated coverage run with all the mochitest, chrome, browser, reftest, xpcshell, and bc's JS tests.  The results will include details down to line coverage.  The run will be against m-c trunk.
 ** Focusing a small project on the JS engine files.  There are 50 main files but only 8 are very active.  bc, mnandigama, together with the JS team, will be looking at how to boost the coverage of some of the active files:
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 == Security ==
-* Participated in the W3C "Security for Access to Device APIs from the Web"
+* Participated in the W3C "Security for Access to Device APIs from the Web" workshop
 == Marketing/PR ==
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 * Firefox add-on featured in [http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/a_firefox_add-on_for_app_addic.php ReadWriteWeb]
 * Firefox wins ReadWriteWeb [http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/top_10_consumer_apps_2008.php Top 10 Consumer Web Apps of 2008]
-* Firefox wins BusinessWeek's [http://images.businessweek.com/ss/08/12/1210_best_worst_tech/10.htm Best Tech Products of 2008]
+* Firefox included in BusinessWeek's [http://images.businessweek.com/ss/08/12/1210_best_worst_tech/10.htm Best Tech Products of 2008]
 '''Events'''
 * Last weekend, the second European Mozilla Add-ons Workshop took place in Madrid. 50 people attended the event. Paul Rouget gave a presentation about how to create an Add-on for Tuenti, the biggest Spanish social network. Hopefully, people from Spain will take ownership of the project and drive it forward.
 * Add-on-Con: Collecting [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Add-on_con#Add-on-Con_Feedback feedback].
-'''Spread Firefox'''
 '''Quarterly Survey'''
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 * Please take some time to carefully consider all ten finalists before [http://impactmozilla.com/vote/ casting your vote]
 * Voting closes Wednesday at Noon pacific time
-'''NLID - No Laundry in December'''
 == Support ==
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 ** Site performance -- site is still too slow
 ** Localization priorities are unclear -- hard to know what to work on first, and the status of the localization
-* [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Support/l10n:Feedback Complete feedback]
+** [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Support/l10n:Feedback Complete feedback]
+* SUMO 0.8 to be released on Thursday
+** New search engine
+** CSAT for Live Chat
+** Chris will blog about the release this week
 == Metrics ==
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 == Evangelism ==
-*Asa is evaluating and documenting Theora streaming options for Air Mozilla, launch day activities, and general video streaming going forward. Asa will also be assisting with two Air Mozilla streamed events this week, (Mitchell on Tuesday and Li Gong on Wednesday) and working with Mozilla Online to get some of the Firefox Flicks videos updated and translated for use in the Mozilla China market.
+* Asa is evaluating and documenting Theora streaming options for Air Mozilla, launch day activities, and general video streaming going forward. Asa will also be assisting with two Air Mozilla streamed events this week, (Mitchell on Tuesday and Li Gong on Wednesday) and working with Mozilla Online to get some of the Firefox Flicks videos updated and translated for use in the Mozilla China market.
-*Firefox 3.1 documentation work continues; the last major known area of documentation to be tackled is now underway: offline resources.  There's still plenty of other stuff to do, but the individual documentation items are generally smaller bites.
+* Firefox 3.1 documentation work continues; the last major known area of documentation to be tackled is now underway: offline resources.  There's still plenty of other stuff to do, but the individual documentation items are generally smaller bites.
+* Demos page: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox3.1/Demos - please help by adding!
 == Labs ==
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 '''SUMO (Mozilla Support)'''
 * In the final throes of [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=&classification=Other&product=support.mozilla.com&component=Chat&component=Forum&component=General&component=Knowledge+Base+Articles&component=Knowledge+Base+Software&component=Localization&target_milestone=0.8&long_desc_type=allwordssubstr&long_desc=&bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubstr&bug_file_loc=&status_whiteboard_type=allwordssubstr&status_whiteboard=&keywords_type=allwords&keywords=&emailassigned_to1=1&emailtype1=substring&email1=&emailassigned_to2=1&;emailreporter2=1&emailqa_contact2=1&emailtype2=substring&email2=&bugidtype=include&bug_id=&votes=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&cmdtype=doit SUMO 0.8], to be released Thursday night
-* [http://bugs.locamotion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=626 tiki2po] landed in the [http://translate.sourceforge.net/wiki/toolkit/index translate toolkit]; will enable SUMO L10n
+* [http://bugs.locamotion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=626 tiki2po] landed in the [http://translate.sourceforge.net/wiki/toolkit/index translate toolkit]; will enable SUMO L10n in Verbatim
 '''Webdev Projects'''
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 * [http://feeds.stage.mozilla.com/ The Lizard Feeder] is staged, and Les is working on its beta launch this week.
 * Django was merged onto the Pootle trunk last week!
+* Mmmmm.... Funnelcake....
 == L10n ==
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 * [http://projectcerbera.com/me/ Ben Millard] completed his [http://projectcerbera.com/web/study/2008/ Foundation-funded project] to study '''HTML usage patterns relevant to web accessibility'''.
 * [http://www.paciellogroup.com/about/index.html The Paciello Group] completed its Foundation-funded project to develop a '''Firefox/Mozilla accessibility reporting panel and ARIA QA extension'''; for more information check out the [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9846 WAT Q/A extension] and [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9108 Juicy Studio accessibility toolbar], as well as Gez Lemon's postings on the [http://juicystudio.com/ Juicy Studio blog].
+* Zak [http://www.slideshare.net/zakgreant/the-age-of-literate-machines-afup-forum-php-presentation/ keynoted] the [http://afup.org AFUP] [http://afup.org/pages/forumphp2008/ Forum PHP] conference in Paris. Rounded out the week working with some of the Mozilla EU team from the Mozilla office in Paris (brief report [http://zak.greant.com/the-paris-brief here].) Most of his time was focused on developing pilots and activities to support the Mozilla Foundation vision and roadmap process.
 = Roundtable =
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 = Other Business =
 * Ongoing [http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.governance/browse_thread/thread/b78c4ff7d4d5e967 discussion on mozilla.governance] concerning the future of planet.mozilla.org. If you're interested, please join in.
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